As a freshman, Samantha Lambrigtsen led an Oregon team that had gone 5-23 the year before to only its third girls basketball regional title in school history.

As a sophomore, she led the Hawks to their fourth 20-win season.

As a junior, she led them to a school-record 23 wins.

As a senior, she led them to another regional title, almost doubled the school's career scoring record with 2,044 points (the previous mark was 1,080) and became the first Associated Press First-Team All-State player in school history.

"Wow!" Lambrigtsen said Thursday after hearing the news. "I always wanted to get first team, but I wasn't expecting it."

Lambrigtsen and 6-foot-2 Ellie Lehne of Byron (29-4), who was named to the second team, were honored in Class 2A, while Eastland's Lexis Macomber made first team in Class 1A and Dakota's Jaycee Cleaver second team. Ashton-Franklin Center's Allison Pretegard and Pearl City's Dani Lee made honorable mention in Class 1A. All but Lambrigtsen are juniors.

Lehne tied for the fifth and final spot on the first team in 2A, but lost the tiebreaker by having fewer first-place votes.

"She's the person that everybody prepared to stop, so we saw a lot of zone," coach Eric Yerly said. "Teams would double- and triple-team her and sometimes even throw four people at her when she caught the ball."

Lehne shot 57 percent and averaged 17.4 points, 6.6 rebounds and 3.0 blocked shots. She will take recruiting visits to Wichita State and Northern Colorado over spring break, but doesn't plan to sign anywhere until after the summer.

Lambrigtsen (22.5 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.6 steals) led Oregon to 81 wins the last four years, and each year the Hawks were the shortest of the BNC West contenders.

"We were so short, but we were always short, ever since we started playing together in second grade," the 5-7 Lambrigtsen said. "So we knew we had to be aggressive and attack. We were never intimidated by height."

"She's never afraid to take on anyone," Oregon coach Kristy Eckhardt said. "Having that attack mode all the time takes people by surprise and is hard to defend."

Macomber, a 6-foot center, averaged 15.8 points and 8.3 rebounds and led Eastland (28-5) to Friday's 1A state semifinals after missing most of last year with foot and knee injuries.

"It's a shocker to me," Macomber said. "I never thought I'd come back so strong."

Cleaver averaged 13 points, six rebounds, three assists and four steals for Dakota (25-7).

"Whatever we needed that night, she would step up and be the best player on the floor at that skill, and that's a tough thing to do," coach Kevin Cline said.